David Emery OnlineTwelve steps for saving webOS
25 August 2011
10) Make sure that webOS apps can also run on other platforms. That’s in the browsers of that platform, of course. User has nice webOS app and shows it to a friend who uses Android. User sends app via Bluetooth, friend can open and use it straight away in the Android browser. That is the true strength of the web platform; a strength you should capitalise on.
WebOS could become something really interesting if they went down this route (and truly live up to this name). Although – and people forget this – Apple is already quite a long way down this path. I find it a little odd when you see articles along the lines of “HTML5 breaks the App Store lock-in” and the like; maybe it does, but only because Apple lets it.
In fact, not only is Apple letting HTML5 apps work on iOS, they’re positively encouraging them by letting them work as proper apps and pushing ahead with WebKit developments (like hardware accelerated animations, for example) to make them work better then on any other mobile platform.
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